PSYC 3030 Chapter : Psych 3030 Intro
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Intro: much of psychology is the study of stuff that we do everyday, yet take for granted, this is particularly true of cognition, which involves. What do cognition study: attention, perception, memory, prospective memory, visual imagery, language processes, problem solving, decision making. We try to trace the flow of information and infer the processes involved. It is something that you can prove is right or wrong. brain: empirical=experimental, mental structures and processes exist, when we see something our brain can process what we are seeing for. Cognitive psychology is empirical: it follows the scientific method, find problem (observation, literature research, form hypothesis, test hypothesis, analyze results, ask do the results support hypothesis, repeat result, then finally report results. Identifying problem: people are bias against their own race, failures of attention, visual search (ex: if you are a security you watch the cameras for things)
